We recently covered the spotlight being cast on the threat of legitimate science publishing being murdered to death under the weight of metric fucktons of plagiarism, gibberish, errors, predatory publications1 or just stone cold made-up data.2 One of the aspects driving publication pollution asserted by Art Caplan, that of predatory publishers3, is the subject of…
How Science Publishing Went The Way Of Bloatware
Everyone’s favorite biomedical ethicist uncle, Arthur Caplan, appeared on Science Friday last week to talk about bloat and pollution.1 And no, Caplan was bearing doomsday tidings of neither a Windows operating system nor the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Caplan took to the airwaves to direct our short attention spans to the unprecedented explosion of “plagiarism, fraud,…